How to disable the System Feeds (nexus-timeline-plugin) feature to improve Nexus performance

If your organization does not rely upon the Nexus System Feeds feature, then disabling the nexus-timeline-plugin is an option to improve the throughput and performance of your Nexus instance. This is especially relevant for instances with limited JVM heap or that are under extremely high load from authenticated requests (NEXUS-6317).

Stop Nexus

Locate the timeline plugin files at {NEXUS_HOME}/nexus/WEB-INF/plugin-repository/nexus-timeline-plugin-{NEXUS_VERSION}. Move this entire directory, a good location might be {NEXUS_HOME}/nexus/WEB-INF/optional-plugins